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Lesvos fire highlights growing threat to government from refugee crisis
PoliticsForeign Policyon the island has been rising for weeks. Migrants are growing increasingly upset at remaining in limbo... on Lesvos. The government faces two immediate challenges: Firstly, it has to find accommodation...-governmental organisations so far. The refugee crisis has been largely on the back burner over
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Economic sentiment falls to 91.4 pts in September, consumer confidence notably rebounds
EconomyMacroeconomyin September, which is the second highest reading since April. In addition, it has risen by 3.8... figure is the highest reading since January, while consumer confidence has decreased by 4.8 points.... Despite the decline in September, it has posted gains of 9.7 points since the beginning of the year
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Office prices edge up 0.2 pct in H1, retail prices drop 0.8 pct
EconomyMacroeconomyof 0.6 percent from the low of 70.9 in H2 2014. However, it has fallen by 30.2 percent from the peak... the high of 114 posted in H2 2008, the office price index has sharply dropped by 36.1 percent... but fell 0.7 percent YoY to 72.8 in H1. Since 2008, the index has tumbled by almost 35 percent
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Deadlock at NBG over chairman appointment
EconomyBankingThomopoulos, who was proposed as nominee for the position of BoD chair. Thomopoulos has some 40 years of experience in the financial sector and has served as deputy governor of Bank of Greece (BoG... but it appears that a compromise has not been reached. The appointment of chair is usually carried out
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Attacks on Chios refugee camp underline precarious balance on islands
PoliticsGreek Politicsfor Greece is edging up towards 62,500. The UNHCR said that it has tried to ease the overcrowding on Chios... on the islands, which are housing more refugees than they have capacity for, has been highlighted many times... for the migrants’ plight, islanders saw tourism revenues drop this summer and this has stoked some resentment
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Mitsotakis renews appeal to PASOK and Potami for joint drive
PoliticsGreek PoliticsJust a few days after naming a shadow cabinet, New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis has issued... is the approach that PASOK leader Fofi Gennimata has followed so far, much to the frustration of some in her party. Former leader Evangelos Venizelos has been the most outspoken critic of this approach
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Are we taking Greeks' devotion to the euro for granted?
Agorathat built up during this period has sparked much introspection. While we are at it, we might want... what has happened in other parts of the world, we need to revisit the belief that Greeks will retain... of Greeks is a new development. There has been a 13 percentage point rise in the negative views since
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Mitsotakis marks first year at ND helm by emphasising tax cut goals
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat Mitsotakis has suggested that he would strike out on his own if needed. Economic doubts One of the key... plans to target waste in the public sector, he has been vague on other ways in which spending could be reduced. He has insisted that there will be no dismissals in the civil service, a pledge that he
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Review talks focus on out-of-court workout, jobs scheme and energy market
EconomyProgrammeon pending issues has not been reached. According to sources, the government remains firm in its... open is the threshold of overdue obligations that will be included in the mechanism. The government has... and that it may may be excluded from the fiscal outcome. According to reports, Greece has held talks
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To Potami and PASOK battle it out for dominance of centre-left
PoliticsGreek Politics. The lawmaker’s move means that PASOK now has 19 MPs, two more than Golden Dawn in fourth place. More significantly, it is a further boost to the leadership of Fofi Gennimata. Although she has strong... that Gennimata has to worry about a challenge from within PASOK, even though some top officials, such as her
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